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Human Dignity?

Webster; dignity: the quality or state of being worthy, honored, or esteemed

"A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy..." Ingrid Newkirk PETA...

Logically, and inherently, do humans have more dignity than animals?

"We can understand hell in its aspect of privation. All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.”C.S. Lewis

"We can understand hell in its aspect of privation. All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.”C.S. Lewis

"We can understand hell in its aspect of privation. All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.”C.S. Lewis

Find me an animal other than humans that honors or esteems itself. I think that will answer your question.

Show me another species that will kill one of its members for fun. In other words, not all human beings esteem or honors other human beings. Or in some cases not even itself.

"We can understand hell in its aspect of privation. All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.”C.S. Lewis

Show me another species that will kill one of its members for fun. In other words, not all human beings esteem or honors other human beings. Or in some cases not even itself.

How is that relevant? You're asking the difference between humans and other animals when it comes to dignity. Other animals aren't capable (so far as we know) of comprehending the concept, let alone applying it to another. That alone is more than sufficient to say that humans have more dignity than animals. We're the only ones capable of it. Whether or not we always act accordingly is another question altogether.

How is that relevant? You're asking the difference between humans and other animals when it comes to dignity. Other animals aren't capable (so far as we know) of comprehending the concept, let alone applying it to another. That alone is more than sufficient to say that humans have more dignity than animals. We're the only ones capable of it. Whether or not we always act accordingly is another question altogether.

Yes, but why does the fact that some humans confer esteem, while other don't, necessarily leads to humans having dignity? I don't see how that follows.

"We can understand hell in its aspect of privation. All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.”C.S. Lewis